Gain the insight and communication skills needed to support widowed clients thoughtfully—strengthening trust, retention, and referrals.
Professionals often meet widowed clients during one of the most disorienting transitions of their lives. This training prepares you to navigate those moments with clarity, steadiness, and practical tools that support both your clients and the long-term relationships you build with them.
Why This Training Matters
Widowed individuals often face overwhelming responsibilities while adjusting to the death of their partner. Financial decisions, legal processes, housing changes, and administrative tasks often arrive all at once.
Professionals who understand the realities of the widowed experience are better prepared to:
- communicate with clarity and compassion
- support clients through major life transitions
- reduce overwhelm during critical decisions
- build lasting professional relationships
- retain clients who are statistically more likely to change professionals after the death of a partner
- earn trust that leads to referrals within families and communities
Choose Your Training Path
Basic Grief Literacy Certification
Foundational training for professionals working with widowed clients.
Program Cost: $150
You receive:
- Self-paced Basic Grief Literacy Training
- Five Newly Widowed Packets
- Certificate of Completion
- Required to order bulk Newly Widowed Packets
Premier Grief Literacy Partnership
Advanced training and ongoing professional engagement.
Program Cost: $100 per month
You receive:
- Self-paced Basic Grief Literacy Training
- Five Newly Widowed Packets delivered monthly (shipping included)
- Option to purchase additional packets for a discounted rate of $10 each with no shipping fees
- Five Custom Condolence Cards to include with Newly Widowed Packets sent by mail
- Advanced grief literacy and communication training modules
- Access to Advanced Grief Literacy Certification
- Monthly professional development and reinforcement content
- Custom portal for ordering and managing bulk packet orders
- Certificate of Completion
Key Benefits
What You Gain
- Practical understanding of the widowed experience
- Confidence navigating grief-related conversations
- Language that reduces stigma and builds trust
- Tools to support clients during major life transitions
- Access to Soaring Spirits resources
Newly Widowed Packets & Training Requirement
Professionals who wish to purchase and distribute Newly Widowed Packets in bulk are asked to complete the Basic Grief Literacy Certification.
This requirement helps ensure that these resources are shared with the care, context, and understanding that widowed clients deserve. The training is designed to be practical, accessible, and immediately useful in your work.
We’re grateful to partner with professionals who are committed to offering thoughtful, grief-literate support alongside these resources.
Why Soaring Spirits
Soaring Spirits International has spent more than two decades serving widowed people and building the largest network of widowed individuals in the world. Our programs, research, and community gatherings have provided deep insight into what widowed people experience—and how professionals can best support them.
This training is built from:
- Decades of service to widowed people
- Insights from 60+ Camp Widow conferences
- Research from the Soaring Spirits Resilience Center
- Thousands of lived experiences shared by widowed individuals
- Direct polling of widowed people about how professionals have shown up—what has helped, what has caused harm, and what they wish professionals understood
Our goal is to equip professionals with the training, confidence, and perspective needed to support widowed clients thoughtfully—and to understand how they can be a meaningful, trusted part of a widowed person’s professional team for years to come.
Join professionals across the country who are building a more compassionate and informed approach to serving widowed clients—strengthening trust, supporting people through profound life transitions, and retaining clients who might otherwise change professionals during this vulnerable time.
